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SEC. 6. The Mayor shall, on conviction in a
Court of Law, of wilful neglect of duty, or
misbehavior in office, be removed from office
by the Governor of the State, and a successor
shall thereafter be elected, as in a case of va-
cancy.
SEC. 7. From and after the adoption of
this Constitution, no debt (except as hereinaf-
ter excepted), shall be created by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore; nor shall the
credit of the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore be given, or loaned to, or in aid of
any individual, association, or corporation; nor
shall the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore have the power to involve the City
of Baltimore in the construction of works of
internal improvement, nor in granting any aid
thereto, which shall involve the faith and
credit of the city, nor make any appropriation
therefor, unless such debt or credit be autho-
rized by an Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, and by an ordinance of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, submitted to
the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, at
such time and place as may be fixed by said
ordinance, and approved by a majority of the
votes cast at such time and place; such ordi-
nance shall provide for the discharge of any
such debt or credit within the period of forty
(40) years from the time of contracting the
same; but the Mayor and City Council may,
temporarily, borrow any amount of money to
meet any deficiency in the City Treasury, and
may borrow any amount at any time to pro-
vide for any emergency arising from the ne-
cessity of maintaining the police, or preserving
the health, safety and sanitary condition of
the City, and may make due and proper
arrangements and agreements for the renewal
and extension, in whole or in part, of any
and all debts and obligations created accord-
ing to law before the adoption of this Consti-
tution.
SEC. 8. All Laws and Ordinances, now in
force, applicable to the City of Baltimore, not
inconsistent with this Article, shall be, and
they are hereby continued until changed in due
course of Law.
SEC. 9. The General Assembly may make
such changes in this Article, except in Section
seventh thereof, as it may deem best; and this
Article shall not be so construed, or taken as
to make the political corporation of Baltimore
independent of, or free from the control, which
the General Assembly of Maryland has over
all such Corporations in this State.

Article XI
ARTICLE XI.A i"
LOCAL LEGISLATION.
SECTION I.'" On demand of the Mayor of
Baltimore and City Council of the City of
Baltimore, or on petition bearing the signatures
of not less than 20% of the registered voters of
said City or any County (Provided, however,
that in any case 10,000 signatures shall be suffi-
cient to complete a petition), the Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors of said City or County shall
provide at the next general or congressional
election, occurring after such demand or the fil-
ing of such petition, for the election of a charter
board of eleven registered voters of said City or
five registered voters in any such Counties.
Nominations for members for said charter board
may be made not less than forty days prior to
said election by the Mayor of Baltimore and
City Council of the City of Baltimore or the
County Commissioners of such County, or not
less than twenty days prior to said election by
petition bearing the signatures written in their
own handwriting (and not by their mark) of not
less than 5% of the registered voters of the said
City of Baltimore or said County; provided, that
in any case two thousand signatures of regis-
tered voters shall be sufficient to complete any
such nominating petition, and if not more than
eleven registered voters of the City of Baltimore
or not more than five registered voters in any
such County are so nominated their names shall
not be printed on the ballot, but said eleven
registered voters in the City of Baltimore or five
in such County shall constitute said charter
board from and after the date of said election.
At said election the ballot shall contain the
names of said nominees in alphabetical order
without any indication of the source of their
nomination, and shall also be so arranged as to
permit the voter to vote for or against the cre-
ation of said charter board, but the vote cast
against said creation shall not be held to bar
the voter from expressing his choice among the
nominees for said board, and if the majority of
the votes cast for and against the creation of
said charter board shall be against said creation
the election of the members of said charter
board shall be void; but if such majority shall
be in favor of the creation of said charter board,
then and in that event the eleven nominees of
the City of Baltimore or five nominees in the
County receiving the largest number of votes
'" Added by Chapter 416, Acts of 1914, ratified November 2,
1915.
'" Thus amended by Chapter 192, Acts of 1963, ratified No-
vember 3, 1964.